COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVES

MAKING COMPARISONS

SUPER HEROES TEACHING UNIT

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVESONE SYLLABLE OR ENDING IN “Y”

COMPARATIVE ADDS “ER”:• STRONG STRONGER• TALL TALLER• WEAK WEAKER• PRETTY PRETTIER

SUPERLATIVE ADDS “EST”:• STRONG STRONGER (THE)

STRONGEST• TALL TALLER (THE) TALLEST• WEAK WEAKER (THE) WEAKEST• PRETTY PRETTIER (THE) PRETTIEST

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVESTWO OR MORE SYLLABLES

COMPARATIVE: MORE + ADJ• CLEVER MORE CLEVER• COWARD MORE COWARD• GENEROUS MORE GENEROUS• HONEST MORE HONEST

SUPERLATIVE: MOST + ADJ

• CLEVER MORE CLEVER (THE) MOST CLEVER• COWARD MORE COWARD (THE) MOST

COWARD• GENEROUS MORE GENEROUS (THE) MOST

GENEROUS• HONEST MORE HONEST (THE) MOST

HONEST

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVESDIFFERENT FORMSSOME ADJECTIVES HAVE VERY DIFFERENT FORMS OF COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

ADJECTIVE COMPARATIVE

SUPERLATIVE

GOOD BETTER (THE) BESTBAD WORSE (THE) WORST

LITTLE LESS (THE) LEASTMUCH/MANY MORE (THE) MOST

FAR FURTHER (THE) FURTHEST

MAKING COMPARISONS

YOU CAN USE “THAN” TO COMPARE TWO THINGS• PETER IS MORE INTELLIGENT THAN PETER• DANNY IS QUICKER THAN HIS BROTHER• I HAVE LESS FREE TIME THAN YOU DO

USING SUPERLATIVES

SUPERLATIVES ARE USUALLY USED WITH “THE”• PARIS IS THE MOST ROMANTIC CITY IN EUROPE• PETER IS THE OLDEST IN OUR GROUP• WE TOOK THE SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE STATION